Slow down

for the love of all good things

Hotflash inc: Here doing the research you don’t have time for… and reminding you this is going somewhere good! This is the free weekly newsletter, a little different this week because, well, as you’ll see I was a little different this week.

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“I got swept up in urgency this week,

which is always rooted in trauma

For me this week around money

around rejection

around exile.

That’s my head’s story.

But the pleasure and wisdom in my body tells me

in truth, all is deeply well

And I just need to return

To the Mother Well

And the slower I go

the safer I am.”

I don’t think I can describe the past few days any better than this, part of the timely newsletter I got hours ago from Sarah Durham Wilson, aka Sarah of Magdalene. I don’t know her but I just love her. She’s so smart. I’m diving into some of the more feminist writings about this menopause transition, and her book Maiden to Mother: Unlocking Our Archetypal Journey into the Mature Feminine is ready and waiting …